So many seem to forget

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Raoul — 7/19/2009 7:47:03 PM (archived)

Sorry, but back in 1972, no one was sad the Moon program would stop with Apollo 17 because they knew the shuttle was coming and also because Earth orbit was the obvious place to go: halfway to anywhere (Heinlein), easyest way to get to vacuum, microgravity , Earth investigation and space telescopes.

Changing our mind about the view we had back then is the one thing I'm worried about: because it means that view and the current one are rather hard to defend.

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NASA's needs - Raoul - 7/19/2009 9:57:03 AM
- Jobs, yes. I read that Project Apollo hired over 400,000 men and women. - Jefferson-Washington. - 7/19/2009 9:31:06 PM
  - SpaceX will send people back to the Moon with less than 5,000 employees. - Lee - 7/20/2009 2:40:24 AM
- Tom Wolfe's Right Stuff - phil - 7/19/2009 3:58:26 PM
  - So many seem to forget - Raoul - 7/19/2009 7:47:03 PM
    - Revised memory - phil - 7/19/2009 9:09:49 PM
      - They promise dus resumed flights by 2000 - Socrates II - 7/20/2009 1:42:10 AM
      - re: Re-revised memory - Raoul - 7/19/2009 11:13:18 PM
        
        re: Re-revised memory - phil - 7/20/2009 12:50:16 AM
        
        Saturn V was used 17 times - Raoul - 7/20/2009 9:23:08 AM
        
        Correction: 13 times and 16 or 17 built (n/t) - Raoul - 7/20/2009 9:29:22 AM
        
        Are the SRBs really the Achillies heel? - Lee - 7/20/2009 2:50:21 AM

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